I have recently read The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan. It is about a person named Charlie West. Charlie is a normal kid. He lives a normal life. He goes to high school. He dreams of becoming an air force pilot. He goes to sleep one day, and he wakes up in an entirely different situation. He’s strapped onto a chair with his hands and feet tied. He’s bloody, hurt, and bruised. A year and a month have passed without him even knowing it. He’s convicted of murdering his friend. He’s accused of working with Islamic terrorists. He has no idea what is going on, but nobody will believe him. He wants to discover the truth. He’s on the run.
This book seems realistic (the character’s feelings not the situation). I can connect this with my own life. There are times when people don’t believe what I say, even though I’m telling the truth. This frustrates me. I can understand what Charlie felt when he was tossed into an incredible situation. At first, he thinks that after he went to sleep one night, people kidnapped him out of his bed and across the entire state without him even noticing. He tells his story to people, but they dismiss it as a lie (mainly because it sounds absurdly unbelievable). He can’t explain it to others, so he is forced to deal with it. Over a year has passed since the last day he remembered, so maybe he did do those bad things, maybe he did commit those crimes. He’s determined to unravel the truth and prove that he isn’t bad as people say he is.
This book is unique because teaches the other point of view the lesson, instead of the character. It teaches them to have trust in people. Charlie eventually did find a person that believed him, even if the person is a half crazy woman that makes a living out of collecting cans and living with her cats in an abandoned apartment building. This proves that even people like these are smarter than others sometimes. With her help along the way, Charlie continues to discover the truth of his veiled past.
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